Unity of the People

Unidad del Pueblo
Founded 1998
Ideology Canarian nationalism
Socialism
Political position Left-wing
International affiliation None
Website
unidaddelpueblo.info

Unidad del Pueblo (English: Unity of the People;[1] UP) is a Canary Islands left-wing nationalist party.

Objectives

UP seeks independence for the Canary Islands and building a socialist society. The party defends a leading paper of the working class in the process of achieving its goals.

History

UP was formed by former members of other left-wing Canarian nationalist political parties. Unidad del Pueblo supported Alternativa Popular Canaria (APC) from 2002 to 2005, when political differences between the two organizations arise. UP gained a town councillor in the 1999 and 2003 local elections in Santa Lucía de Tirajana.[2]

Since 2007 UP began to present lists in all the elections held in the Canary Islands. The party achieved 1400 votes in the regional elections of that year and 1800 in the municipal ones, losing the only councilman the party had. In 2009 it was one of the parties supporting the candidacy Iniciativa Internacionalista in the European elections. In the European elections of 2014 UP supported the coalition The Peoples Decide.[3]

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